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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> -----Original Message-----</span></p>
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> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net></div>
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> Send: Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 6:51</div>
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> To: announce@dpdk.org <announce@dpdk.org></div>
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> Subject: DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3</div>
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> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:</div>
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> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc3</div>
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> There are 98 new patches in this snapshot.</div>
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> Release notes:</div>
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> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.html</div>
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> Please test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org</div>
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> The next release candidate (-rc4) is planned for Monday 24.</div>
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> Patches and reviews for examples, tooling and documentation are welcome.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> Thank you everyone</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Basic functionality:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Send and receive multiple types of traffic. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- testpmd xstats counter test. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- testpmd timestamp test. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- RTE flow tests:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 134, 240);"><a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads" title="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads" data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="77900450-a898-4bd8-a6cb-2752b06bee1f" style="color: rgb(0, 134, 240); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;">https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- RSS
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">testing</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Checksum and TSO tests.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- ptype
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">report</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ing.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Multi process
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">testing</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> using multi process example applications.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Hardware LRO tests. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Buffer Split.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Tx scheduling.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kindest Regards,</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wael Abualrub</span></p>
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